Adjustment of Children and Youth in Military Families: Toward Developmental Understandings

Maholmes, Valerie

doi:10.1111/j.1750-8606.2012.00256.x

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“…Research has indicated that maternal mental health can mitigate the impact of OSI on child development (Dinshtein, Dekel, & Polliack, 2011;Lambert, Holzer, & Hasbun, 2014;Lieberman & Horn, 2013;Lincoln & Sweeten, 2011;Maholmes, 2012;McGuinness & McGuinness, 2014). A study that examined the impact of warm and caring maternal relationships on the children of PTSD veterans indicated that, as adults, children of PTSD veterans experienced less emotional distress and had a greater capacity for intimacy (Dinshtein et al, 2011).…”

Section: Spousal Relationships and Parentingmentioning

confidence: 96%

The Impact of Parental Operational Stress Injury on Child Mental Health and Well-Being: A Scoping Review

Cramm

Tam‐Seto

Norris

et al. 2016

Military Behavioral Health

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Recognizing the impact of parental mental health on child development, the purpose of this scoping review was to identify and synthesize the research literature describing the impact of parental operational stress injury (OSI) on children and youth from military and veteran families. Arksey and O'Malley's 2005 guidelines for conducting scoping reviews were followed. A total of 18 separate databases were searched, in addition to three university-based discovery platforms. From this search, 506 potential sources were identified; 64 proceeded to full data extraction and analysis. This study identified two significant themes in the current literature. First, there are multiple ways in which parental OSIs can impact children and youth. Families need to renegotiate parenting roles and responsibilities, experience changes in spousal relationships that can cascade into parenting, and face shifting family dynamics. In addition, children and youth can experience secondary traumatization, be at risk for child maltreatment, and manifest general impacts on their mental health and development. Second, responding to the impacts through collaboration and innovation. Future directions include informing research with the voices of all members of the family. Knowledge translation strategies are necessary for collaboration across all areas to support this population.

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Section: Spousal Relationships and Parentingmentioning

confidence: 96%

The Impact of Parental Operational Stress Injury on Child Mental Health and Well-Being: A Scoping Review

Cramm

Tam‐Seto

Norris

et al. 2016

Military Behavioral Health

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“…A growing number of families have experienced the strain of wartime deployments and reintegration over the past decade (Adler et al 2011;Maholmes 2012; Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Military Community andFamily Policy 2009, 2010;Saltzman et al 2011). The deployment cycle (pre-deployment, deployment, postdeployment or reintegration) challenges families with its multiple and lengthy separations and has been linked to stress for family members.…”

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confidence: 98%

Reintegration Stress and Family Mental Health: Implications for Therapists Working with Reintegrating Military Families

Marek

D’Aniello

2014

Contemp Fam Ther

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Military families respond and adjust differently to reintegration stressors with some families coping well with these changes while other families do not. It is important to understand factors that contribute to reintegration stress since reintegration stress can affect their own and their family's emotional health and well-being for months if not years into the future. This study addresses the factors that contribute to more positive outcomes and reduced reintegration stress, for reintegrating military families. Service members and partners who report the presence of PTSD related symptoms and report their own and their partner's mental health as low, are more likely to experience more reintegration stress. The results indicate that this model is able to significantly predict variance (32 and 37 %, respectively) in reintegration stress levels. It is important for mental health providers to understand the variation in reintegrating families' stress levels and coping skills. Employing a systemic approach uniquely positions therapists to more effectively address these issues to help military families develop healthy cohesive family systems.

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“…Since the start of OEF/OIF/OND, more than two million children of U.S. service members have been affected by wartime deployments (Esposito-Smythers et al, 2011). For more than a decade since 9/11, children and their parents have negotiated repeated separations and subsequent family reunions in the context of wartime stress and the related imminent risk factors (Maholmes, 2012). An entire generation has grown up in the context of war, yet a great divide exists between military-connected children, who have S132 (2013) sustained repeated losses and reintegration stress, and their civilian peers, who have lived without these risk factors present in their lives.…”

Section: Curricula Inclusionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…For instance, social workers need to be familiar with research methods that are culturally-competent and support research efforts on the different effects of the deployment cycle, particularly the reintegration phase that can affect a family system for years with implications for all members. There are more than two million American military-connected children who have grown up during more than a decade of war, and there is currently very little research about the long-term effects on their well-being and psychosocial development (Maholmes, 2012). The high number of veterans with polytrauma (multiple injuries to various body systems) as well as PTSD and TBI from Iraq and Afghanistan MILITARY/VETERAN ISSUES IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION S139 are a cohort that would benefit from continued research into treatments that prove effective over time.…”

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confidence: 99%

Integrating Military and Veteran Culture in Social Work Education: Implications for Curriculum Inclusion

Canfield¹,

Weiss

2015

Journal of Social Work Education

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This article explores the conceptual question of how to best integrate military culture and issues into social work education. Military service members, veterans, and their families are returning to civilian communities with the ending of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and seeking community-based providers for health and mental health treatments. Civilian social workers need to have an appreciation for the unique psychosocial stressors and needs of this population to be able to engage and intervene effectively with them. The military lifestyle and its demands require an understanding of topics that include coping and adaptation to stress, ecological and systems theories, family roles and functioning, community capacity to support the population, and the effect of these across the lifespan.Exigent means demanding attention, and when a situation is exigent, it generally calls for immediate and precise reactions based on thoughtful, well-informed decisions about what course of action to take next. The community of social work education has such a situation concerning how to best educate students and practitioners with regard to the needs of veterans, military service members, and family members affected as a result of that service. The purpose of this article is to offer suggestions for curriculum inclusion of material into the foundation courses of undergraduate and graduate social work programs. Although there are some schools that weave these topics into their required coursework seamlessly, we speculate that there are many that do not, and there has been no formal measurement nor exploration of this distinction. This disparity in the educational process across schools of social work leads to divergent competencies concerning a population with a unique culture and clinical presentation.The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) keeps a list of military social work specialty programs in schools of social work that self-report holding concentrations, certificates, or specialized courses on the topics. Formal monitoring of this list is difficult at best due to the changing nature of specialized programming, yet rigorous research methods into the specifics of these offerings would offer valuable analytic data to the field. Social work students who know they want to focus on social work with the military or veteran population typically apply for field internships at local Veterans' Administration (VA) hospitals or affiliated vet centers.

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Adjustment of Children and Youth in Military Families: Toward Developmental Understandings

Cited by 40 publications

References 43 publications

The Impact of Parental Operational Stress Injury on Child Mental Health and Well-Being: A Scoping Review

The Impact of Parental Operational Stress Injury on Child Mental Health and Well-Being: A Scoping Review

Reintegration Stress and Family Mental Health: Implications for Therapists Working with Reintegrating Military Families

Integrating Military and Veteran Culture in Social Work Education: Implications for Curriculum Inclusion

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